The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-18
Pith and Point.

gets 1t back.-1erdS Strings.
NEARLY $4,000 farms have been opened
up in Kansas during the past year.
The unsuccessful literary man casts his
articles on the waters and they return to
him after not many days.
GLEN's FALLS has dressmaker by the
name of Miss Mary Haste. OF course
Haste makes waists. - Whitehall Time.
AT mountain resort. "And is the air
healthy here? Excellent sir, excellent
One can become centenarian here in lit
tie while"
The Kingston Freeman imparts the well
come information that the Hudson river
fruit crop is to be extraordinary in quantity
and quality this year.
JEFFERsoNIAN simplicity was illustrated
with seven kinds of wine at the dinner
given by President Cleveland in honor of
dusky Queen Kapiolani.
A BALL of hair was recently found in the
stomach of cow in Kansas. 1t looks as If
the mystery OF the hair in the butter is about
to be solved.-Philadelphi Call.
THE Springfield Union suggests that If any
stylish woman wants to beat all her neigh
bors in the costliness of her decorations let
her wear aspring chicken on her bonnet.
IT is all well enough to say there is moth
ing in a name; but suppose a man named
Slaughter should start a summer hotel and
call 1t the Slaughter House, drper'S Bozdr.
SPEAKING of public school lore, teacher
sends this detached gem of school-boy
definition, which is worthy of being placed
on record: Repugnant-one who re-
pugs. "-BoSton Transcript
A soAP-MAKING concern advertised that it
would give away on application one thou
sand washing-machines A Norristown, CT,
man wrote for one of the machines and re-
ceived cake of soap and a wash-rag.
"PA," said little Jimmie, ct was very
near going to the head of my class to-day"
How is that, my son?'' Why, big word
came all the way down to me, and if only
could have spelled it | should have gone
clear up. Wide A,Cake.
The chart of the heavens which the inter-
national astronomers are about to prepare
will be composed of about 1000 sheets.
With the aid of this chart it will be posi-
BILE to diagnose" so to speak the lO0,-
100000 stars which are said to exist in the
ornament.
WHEN mind is in ruin it often runs in
the well-beaten tracks. A very eloquent
Presbyterian divine happening to use the
word Peter in one of his sermons paused
and said: Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater"
This was the last time he was permitted to
occupy the pulpit Christian Adcocate.
A PROFESSOR CRoMER says there would
be much less danger of fire if all houses
were built north and south" The East and
w cSl, uONtNtI, WOulu nOb llSltH 10 SUCH ii
proposition. Where would Chicago and
Boston be if all the houses had been built
North and South?''-Norristowh Herdld.
The following is an expression which al
ways occurred in President Days prayers:
We are the degenerate plants of strange
vine" An old Litchfield deacon used to
have this pet phrase "When, o Lord, the
clods of the valley shall fall on this dilapi-
dated form. "-HarJord Religious World.
THOMAS NJ, KIRKwooD, an Englishman of
poetic vim, disposed of his effects Just be-
fore dying recently in the following wistful
stanza:
AS to all my worldly goods have in store
leave to my dear wife forever more,
freely give, will no limit fix.
This is my will and she my executrix"
A GRANGER living near Boston lately
found three $500 United States bonds in a
hole in stone-wall on his farm. And yet
there are agricultural papers of standing
which pretend to say that the farm lands of
Massachusetts are exhausted and that to
lind truly productive soil one must go West.
This farmer living near Boston has doubt
less decided to stay East.-Erchange.
A NEW and extraordinarily fine variety of
asparagus has just been discovered on the
steppes of Akhal-Tekiz, recently annexed
by Russia. Though growing perfectly wild,
1t attains a size unknown in civilized coun-
tries. The stalks are said to be nearly as
thick as a mans arm, and they grow to
height of five or six feet. This asparagus is
tender and delicious in flavor. One stalk
will supply ten Russian soldiers with all
they can eat.
AT the DISQUALIFICATION 81 congratu-
late you sincerely my dear SIR Patient
Goyfully) "Then / will recover" Physi-
clan; No, not exactly; but after consulta-
ton we have come to the conclusion that
your case is an entirely new one, and we
have decided to give your name to the
malady, provided that our diagnosis is con-
tirmed by the autopsy" Patient imme-
diately expires from fright.-Journal of
RecOnStructiUes.
AN Albany newspaper tells of a well-to-do
but very careful gentleman who recently
told friend in good faith that he had dis
covered how to save on his butter bills
Just spread your bread with butter" said
he, g then scrape it off as closely as you can
and hold the buttered side down when you
eat it. Your tongue strikes the butter at
once, and you get just as much flavor as if
you had three times as much butter and ate
it the other way"
AN odd practice prevails in regard to
mourning for deceased relatives in Corea
Any one who has suffered such a loss goes
about for year wearing kind OF pointed
basket on his head, which completely hides
his face, and no one is permitted to address
him or speak to him. 1t was by adopting
the mourner's bonnet as disguise that the
terng the country and making their way
about unquestioned by anybody.
AS we were reposing in the arms of gentle
Morpheus and dreaming of future bliss, a
few nights ago, we were suddenly awakened
from our slumbers by party of fair sere-
naders AS the gentle zephyrs waited to
us the tones of their musical voices it
seemed as if we had suddenly awakened in
land of enchanted bliss, where only fairies
and angelic creatures dwell. Such kind
remembrances by our female friends are
duly appreciated.-Al alabama Paper.
NJ. DUJARDIN BEAUMETz, in recent COM
munication to the Paris Academy, gives the
case of family who took house for the
season at fashionable resort. They were
warned not to drink the wel-water as it
was supposed to be impure. They drank
mineral water exclusively, until the last
day, when, in the hurry of packing, they
neglected to send for mineral water and
concluded to try the well-water. Ten drank
of it, and six have since died; four, who
had previously had typhoid fever, were made
sick but recovered. A microscopic exami-
nation of the well-water revealed the pres
ence of the bacillus, supposed to be the
cause of typhoid fever.
If Charles Reade were still alive his scrap-
book of newspaper clippings as suggestions
strange story of the BabbicOmbe murder
An English lady murdered and robbed; her
servant Lee, convicted of the crime three
attempts to hang Lee and three failures by
successive breakings OF the rope supersti.